Electrical device for shocking horses



No. 752,544. I PATENTED FEB. 16, 1904.

J. A. GILES. ELECTRICAL DEVICE FOR SHOCKING HORSES.

APPLIUATION FILED SEPT. 24. 1902.

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ELECTRICAL DEVICE FOR SHOCKING HORSES.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 24. 1902.

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No.75a544.

UNITED STATES Patented February 16, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

ELECTRICAL DEVICE FOR SHOCKING HORSES.

I SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 752,544, dated February 16, 1904.

Application filed September 24, 1902. Serial No. 124,698. (No model.)

To aLZ whmn it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAuEs ALVIN GILEs, a citi- Zen of the United States, residing at Elberton, in the county of Elbert and State of Georgia,

have invented new and useful Improvementsin Electrical Devices for Shocking Horses, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to electrical devices for shocking horses to urge them along, and has for its object to construct a device for urging horses along which is operated by electricity.

The simple and novel construction employed by me in carrying out my invention is fully described and claimed in this specification, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof, in which* Figure 1 is a diagrammatic plan View of my device, together with a four-horse team. Fig. 2 is a section on line 2 2, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a section on line 3 3, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a section on line 44, Fig. 1, with plug in aperture 17. Fig. 5 is a detail of harness-saddle.

Like numerals of reference designate like parts in the different views of the drawings.

The numeral 1 designates a box, which is secured to the dashboard on the seat of a vehicle within easy reach of the driver. Mounted within the box 1 is a dynamo of the magneto type and comprising three permanent magnets 2, bearing semicircular fields 3, between which is mounted an armature 4. This armature 4 is journaled in disks 5, secured to the fields 3. The pinion 6 is keyed on one end of the armature-shaft 4 and meshes with a larger pinion 6, carried by a shaft 7 journaled in arms 8, formed integral with the disks 5. The shaft 7 extends through an aperture 7 in the box 1 and bears a crank 9 for operating the device.

A corrugated conducting-disk 10 is adjustably mounted on the armature-shaft 4 and has a spindle 10, engaged by a spring-brush 11, attached to the side of the box 1, but insulated therefrom. A conductor 12 is connected at one end of the brush 11 and at the other end to a plug 13. The plug 13 has a handle 14 and a body 15, consisting of a metal plate 15 and a dielectric plate 15. A. stop 15 limits the insertion of the plug in two apertures 1'6 and 17 in the box 1. Mounted within the apertures 16 and 17 are rigid,con-.

ducting-fingers 18, bearing resilient conducting-fingers 19, insulated from the fingers 18 and located to engage and hold the plug 13. Conductors 20 are connected at one end to one pair of fingers 18 and 19 and to binding-posts 22 and 23, while conductors 21 are connected at one end to the other pair of fingers 18 and 19 and at their other ends to binding-posts 24 and 25. A conductor 26 is connected at one end to one of the disks 5, attached to the fields 3, and at the other end to a binding-post 27. By virtue of this connection a circuit can be completed via the conductor 26, disk 5, and the coils of the armature 4.

Secured to the pads 28 of each of the harnesssaddles 29 on the horses forming the team are conducting-plates 30, of copper or any other good conductor, which plates come in contact with the hair on the horses backs.

I illustrate my device as applied to a fourhorse team and designate the near wheeler by the numeral 31, the off wheeler by 32, the near leader by 33, and the off leader by 34. An insulated conductor 35, such as corded tinsel cord, is connected to the binding-post 27, which is connected to the fields 3, and this cord is extended along the tongue of the wagon and then connected by four branches 36 to the plate on the horses 31, 32, 33, and 34. A conductor 40 connects the plate 30 on the horse 31 to the binding-post 22, a conductor 41 connects the plate 30 on the horse 33 to the binding-post 23, a conductor 42 connects the plate 30 on the horse 34 to the binding-post 24, and a conductor 43 connects the plate 30 on the horse 32 to the binding-post 25. The

conductors 40,41, 42, and 43 are all insulated and made, preferably, of corded tinsel cord, as this is the most pliable and durable conductor with which I am acquainted.

' By the arrangement just described a circuit can be completed via coils of the armature 4, collector 10, brush 11, conductor 12, plug 13, one of the conductors 20 or 21, depending on which one of the apertures 16 or 17 the plug is inserted in, then through the correspondingbinding-post 22, 23, 24, or 25 to the plate 30, then through the conductor 35, through binding-post 27, conductor 26, disk 5, back to the coils of the armature 4, thereby completing the circuit. By changing the plug 13 four difierent circuits can be established. When it is desired to touch up the near wheeler, it is only necessary to put the plug 13 in the aperture 16 with the conducting side up in contact with the finger 19 and turn the crank 9 to generate an alternating current, which will flow through the circuit, including the plate on the horse 31, and startle him. To reach the near leader, the plug 13 is reversed and the crank 9 turned; to touch up the OE wheeler the plug 13 is put in the aperture 17, metal side 15 up, and to reach the ofi leader the plug 13 is turned over, metal 15 down, and the crank 9 turned.

I do not wish to be limited as to details of construction, as these may be modified in many particulars without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a device of the class described,the combination of a plurality of conducting-plates, a magneto, a reversible plug in circuit with the collector on said magneto, a pair of conducting-fingers connected to said conducting-plates and arranged to engage and hold said plug, and conductors connecting said plates and said plug, substantially as described.

2. In a device for shocking horses, the combination of a box, a magneto mounted in said box and provided with a crank within reach of the driver for operating said magneto, a pair of rigid conducting-fingers mounted on said box and insulated from one another, two rcsilient fingers one connected to each of said rigid fingers, a plug bearing a conductingplate and adapted to be inserted between said rigid and resilient fingers, a conductor connected to said plug and to the armature-coils of said magneto, and conductors connecting said plates and the coils on the armature of said magneto, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES ALVIN GILES.

Witnesses:

J. F. B. BELL, T. W. THORNTON. 

